Product Manager

Novella

$120K — $150K *
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3-5 years of product management experience, preferably in B2B SaaS or startups.
  • Strong grasp of complex business processes and simplifying them for users.
  • Ability to collaborate directly with engineers and insurance professionals.
  • Excellent communication skills for bridging technical and business discussions.
  • Proactive mindset with a high comfort level in ambiguous situations.

Responsibilities

  • Own a product domain from discovery to delivery and iteration.
  • Engage extensively with brokerage team and retail broker customers to identify pain points.
  • Prototype and develop features addressing user experience challenges.
  • Understand and simplify complex business flows with AI solutions.
  • Act as a liaison between brokerage operations and engineering teams.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work in an innovative, fast-paced environment.
  • Hands-on involvement in product development and feature shipping.
  • Collaborative work culture with direct client interaction.
  • Access to the latest AI technologies to enhance product management.
  • Possibility of rapid professional growth in a dynamic industry.
Full Job Description
The Role

We're seeking a Product Manager who is obsessed with customers. Your job is to understand user flows inside and out, identify where things break or slow down, and build features that solve real problems for the brokers and underwriters who use our platform every day.

You'll own a full product domain and serve as the bridge between our internal brokerage team and our engineering team. That means sitting with brokers, watching them work, hearing their frustrations, and translating what you learn into a product roadmap that makes their lives measurably easier. It also means working hand-in-hand with engineers to ship features fast and iterate based on real usage.

The role of a PM has changed dramatically in 2026. We no longer need PRDs but functioning prototypes. PMs can now ship code directly to production. The ideal candidate is obsessed with users but also obsessed with using AI to make themselves the best PM possible.

The Day to Day

  • Own a full product domain end-to-end - from discovery through delivery and iteration.
  • Spend significant time with our brokerage team and retail broker customers understanding their workflows, pain points, and what would make their lives easier.
  • Build prototypes, and sometimes actual features, to address the problems user experience
  • Deeply understand complex business flows and build AI agents to handle those flow on behalf of our brokers.
  • Serve as the connective tissue between our brokerage operations team and our engineering team, ensuring both sides are aligned.

What We're Looking For

  • 3-5 years of product management experience, ideally at a B2B SaaS company or startup.
  • Strong ability to understand complex business flows and translate them into simple, intuitive product experiences.
  • Comfortable working directly with engineers and equally comfortable interfacing with insurance professionals
  • Excellent communication skills - you can explain technical concepts to business users and business context to engineers.
  • Bias toward action and comfort with ambiguity. You ship, learn, and iterate extremely quickly.

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